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[CITE: 43USC424a]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
            SUBCHAPTER V--ADMINISTRATION OF EXISTING PROJECTS
 
Sec. 424a. Sale of unproductive lands; terms; area purchasable; 
        tracts included
        
    The Secretary is authorized to sell such lands to resident farm 
owners or resident entrymen, on the project upon which such land is 
located, at prices not less than that fixed by independent appraisal 
approved by the Secretary, and upon such terms and at private sale or at 
public auction as he may prescribe: Provided, That no such resident farm 
owner or resident entryman shall be permitted to purchase under sections 
424 to 424e of this title more than one hundred and sixty acres of such 
land, or an area which, together with land already owned on such Federal 
irrigation project, shall exceed three hundred and twenty acres: And 
provided further, That the authority given hereunder shall apply not 
only to tracts wholly classified as temporarily or permanently 
unproductive, but also to all tracts of public lands within Federal 
irrigation projects which by reason of the inclusion of lands classified 
as temporarily or permanently unproductive are found by the Secretary to 
be insufficient to support a family and to pay water charges.

(May 16, 1930, ch. 292, Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 367.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 424, 424b, 424d, 424e of 
this title.
